Azimut Hotel Koln City Center Cologne

... which was nice because typically we don't exchange more than 2 sentences in a day. Sitting down with all of the "members" of the household is always a fun lingual experience. Carla speaks Italian to me and I speak English back, yet we typically understand each other fine. Isidoro speaks to me in several languages and I only understand him when he speaks in German but I still have a hard time responding in anything but ...

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... dated from the 17 hundreds. The place has been passed down through her family for generations and is more steeped in history than any house I've ever been in. To add to the mystery, half of the house is shut off, falling into disrepair. We were able to peak into that side and saw something resembling the West Wing from Beauty and the Beast. Antiquated wall paper peeled from the walls, mold and fungus bloomed in circular patterns over everything, stuffed ...

Another early start for our walking tour of Cologne. We started at the ship and walked through the Old Town to the cathedral. The Old Town isn’t really old. It was completely destroyed during WWII. It was slowly rebuilt to look like the original. The cathedral was badly damaged during the bombing but the structure remained standing. The construction of the cathedral was started in 1248 but not finished until 1880. At ...

Koln

After our Rhine cruise we drove in the coach to Koln (Cologne). Cologne is well-known for a few things, including perfume (4711 in particular), its Roman origins (as a colony – hence the name) and for its twin spired Gothic cathedral. We stopped for a little over an hour in the main square.

The cathedral houses the bones of the three Magi ...

... belting out some Pink, leave me alone. Ahh joy. So it's off to this party of some of her work colleagues. Take along some wine and these funny teeny bottles of alcohol we found in the supermarket for the journey: actually turn out to be quite nice!! So after a while at the party manage to get to grips with the introductions of all the people - they seem lovely! Go inside to get another drink and I swear here's the beginning of the end.. persuaded into a ...

... lounge chairs, beds, and of course a bar onto the roof of a large parking garage. It's damn cool. This is going to be such a good place to hang out and relax with friends after classes once it gets blistering hot. Wednesday: Normal class load today, Organizational Management. I definitely like this professor; he makes a somewhat dry subject entertaining. We had another tour with Hartwig today; this time we toured the "original" (its been rebuilt numerous times) building ...

... of my mind, I don't know why I ever agreed to this fish dinner in the first place. Perhaps it was the fact that Steve and I have participated in every other German tradition since we've been here. Or maybe it was the fact that I was just too stubborn to say "No". I'm not really sure. What I do know is that as soon as we sat down at our table, I was already looking for the exit sign! When our dinner finally came, it really didn't look that ...

... Frosted Flakes (called Frosties), Fruit Loops, Sugar Smacks, and Raisin Bran. This was a huge disappointment for me considering the fact that I am a cereal freak and have ten or more different types of cereal sitting in my cupboard at home! German labeling is another huge obstacle we faced when trying to select our groceries. Since we can't read German, we have no idea if we are really buying the right things. For example, when I was trying to pick out ...

... Karlsruhe on Monday. The inside of The Dome was truely fancinating and awesome. A high ceiling and magnificant pillars all the way up, large ground floor littered with people, and old art upon the walls, plus the usual religious paraphanalia. The photos do not do the experience enough justice. There was several thousand people flooding the Christmas markets surrounding The Dome and nearby cobblestone streets doing shopping and eating German food and ...